Connor Freeman (2022-10-15). White House Announces New $725 Million Arms Package for Ukraine. news.antiwar.com The Joe Biden administration will send $725 million in more weapons and other military equipment to Ukraine, the White House announced on Friday. The arms shipment is expected to contain munitions, including more rounds for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), and military vehicles but no new significant capabilities or counter air-defenses.Russia's wide scale …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-10-15). Ideological Work in the New Era of Socialism in China. libya360.wordpress.com Gabriel Martinez Part 1 The Reform and Opening policy, initiated by the Communist Party of China in 1978, has produced important transformations in the economic sphere of the country. The transformation in the structure of property has, little by little, caused the basic structure of property relations in the country to change to a system…

Anonymous669 (2022-10-15). UK Says Its Drones Killed ISIS Commander In Northeastern Syria. southfront.org Cpl. John Watt, avionics specialist, 42d Attack Squadron, Royal Air Force, Creech Air Force Base, Nev., challenges a mode 4, Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) cryptic code on the MQ-9 Reaper prior to flight. USAF Photo by Lawrence Crespo Released | The United Kingdom has claimed responsibility for the In a brief statement r…

WSWS (2022-10-15). The historical background of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for global elimination. wsws.org This report was given by Evan Blake to the Seventh Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) in support of the resolution titled "The COVID-19 pandemic and the fight for socialism"

Sarah Lazare (2022-10-15). Joe Manchin Says He's Pro-Job Creation, But He's Lobbying the Fed to Increase Unemployment. zcomm.org Manchin has justified fossil fuel extraction because it "creates jobs." He's also pushing a policy that would cut them…

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-10-15). Sunday 10/30: A Marxist Look at Capitalism's Meltdown. indybay.org 747 Polk St. @ Ellis, San Francisco or via zoom tinyurl.com/MarxistLookCapitalismMeltdown…

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-14). EU Warns West Will 'Annihilate' Russian Army If Moscow Uses Nukes. news.antiwar.com EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell issued a threat against Russia on Thursday, warning that Western powers would "annihilate" the Russian army if Moscow uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine. "Putin is saying he is not bluffing. Well, he cannot afford bluffing, and it has to be clear that the people supporting Ukraine and the European Union …

Kyle Anzalone (2022-10-14). Macron: France Won't Respond to a Nuclear Strike on Ukraine With Nuclear Weapons. news.antiwar.com French President Emmanuel Macron answered questions about Paris's nuclear weapons policy in a Wednesday television interview. He indicated that Moscow detonating a nuclear weapon in Ukraine would not cause Paris to use its nukes. Macron is facing criticism for his remarks. Paris's current nuclear policy only allows for the deployment of its ultimate weapons in …

Medea Benjamin, Marcy Winograd (2022-10-14). What Must Be Done to End Nuclear Extortion and Build Lasting Peace. commondreams.org The way out is for President Biden and every member of Congress to immediately call for a ceasefire, support peace negotiations, and end the weapons shipments that risk Armageddon.

Rann Miller (2022-10-14). Opinion: Jay-Z's Comments About Capitalism Attracted Vitriol But What Else Should Black People Expect? moguldom.com Jay-Z says that "capitalist" is a new slur to bring the Black community down. Of course, some folks are upset about it. But it makes sense that he said what he said. Jay-Z is a billionaire capitalist. On an Aug. 31 Twitter Spaces conversation with DJ Khaled, Lenny S. and Rob Markman, Jay-Z said: "Before …

____ (2022-10-14). World Bank chief says global economy 'dangerously close' to a recession. ecns.cn The global economy is "dangerously close" to a recession, as inflation remains elevated, interest rates rise, and growing debt burden hits the developing world, World Bank President David Malpass said Thursday.

Dana Sanchez (2022-10-14). Edward Harrison: The Yield Curve Is At Maximum Inversion, Signaling America Is Headed For Recession. moguldom.com The yield curve between the 2-year and 10-year Treasury notes has continued to invert with the spread between the two now deepening to its most significant level in more than 22 years. Early Friday, the spread between the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield (US10Y) and the U.S. 2-year Treasury yield (US2Y) touched -55 basis points. In …

Mike Walter (2022-10-14). The Heat: IMF warns that for many 2023 will feel like a recession. america.cgtn.com The International Monetary Fund lowers its outlook for the global economy.

Prof. Marjorie Cohn (2022-10-14). Israel Authorizes Military to Kill Palestinians with Drones in the West Bank. globalresearch.ca

WSWS (2022-10-13). The COVID disaster and the political crisis of Australian capitalism. wsws.org "The criminal 'let it rip' pandemic policies of governments—invariably enforced by the labour and trade union bureaucracies—have exposed the brutality of capitalism, and its readiness to sacrifice lives for corporate profit and private wealth accumulation."

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-14). EU Warns West Will 'Annihilate' Russian Army If Moscow Uses Nukes. news.antiwar.com EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell issued a threat against Russia on Thursday, warning that Western powers would "annihilate" the Russian army if Moscow uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine. "Putin is saying he is not bluffing. Well, he cannot afford bluffing, and it has to be clear that the people supporting Ukraine and the European Union …

Staff (2022-10-14). West to give powerful response if nuke used in Ukraine. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 14 (MNA) — The West will give a powerful response to Russia's allegedly possible use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine, but that response won't be nuclear, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy said.

____ (2022-10-14). World Bank chief says global economy 'dangerously close' to a recession. ecns.cn The global economy is "dangerously close" to a recession, as inflation remains elevated, interest rates rise, and growing debt burden hits the developing world, World Bank President David Malpass said Thursday.

Freedom Socialist Party (2022-10-14). Sunday 10/30: A Marxist Look at Capitalism's Meltdown. indybay.org 747 Polk St. @ Ellis, San Francisco or via zoom tinyurl.com/MarxistLookCapitalismMeltdown…

Fvorinoco (2022-10-13). NATO Evaluating Possibility of Nuclear Strikes on Russia, Belarus. orinocotribune.com The Belarusian State Security Committee (KGB) revealed that the United States and NATO are considering using tactical nuclear weapons against Russia and Belarus. | "According to the information that we have extracted from Western political and military circles, they believe that they should not lose in any case" said the president of the organization, Ivan Tertel, during a television broadcast on Belarus-1. "Hence the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons or using those terrorist groups that are created to directly attack our country and our allies." | Recently, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko s…

Editor (2022-10-13). Biden's broken promise to avoid war with Russia may kill us all. mronline.org It is widely acknowledged that U.S. and NATO officers are now fully involved in Ukraine's operational war planning, aided by a broad range of U.S. intelligence gathering and analysis to exploit Russia's military vulnerabilities, while Ukrainian forces are armed with U.S. and NATO weapons and trained up to the standards of other NATO countries.

Dave DeCamp (2022-10-13). NATO Has 10-Year Plan to Rebuild Ukraine's Military. news.antiwar.com NATO is developing a 10-year plan to rebuild Ukraine's military and arms industry with a focus on shifting the country from using Soviet equipment to primarily using NATO weapons, "We will be looking at defense planning requirements to get Ukraine fully interoperable with NATO," a senior NATO official told Politico on the condition of anonymity. "It's about shifting away from Soviet equipment … to NATO-compatible Western equipment." | The first meeting between NATO and Ukraine on t…

WSWS (2022-10-13). Services rendered: Ben Bernanke awarded Nobel Prize for economics. wsws.org As Fed chair Bernanke was the architect of the bank and corporate bailouts of 2008 and initiated the program of quantitative easing by which the Fed and other central banks poured trillions of dollars into financial markets, facilitating an orgy of speculation the like of which has never been seen, while widening social inequality to unprecedented levels.

Anonymous669 (2022-10-13). Three Turkish Drone Strikes Hit Northeastern Syria In Just Two Days (Videos). southfront.org Turkish combat drones have reportedly carried out three airstrikes on areas held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria's northeastern region. | On October 12, a Turkish drone strike hit a vehicle of the SDF's Syriac Security Office, Sutoro, as it was passing near the town of al-Malikiyah in the northeastern countryside of al-Hasakah. In a statement, the Sutoro acknowledged that one of its personnel was killed as a result of the strike. Meanwhile, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Hum…

Joel Richards (2022-10-13). Andes plane crash th anniversary. america.cgtn.com Would you eat another human to survive? It's been years since 16 young men survived a plane crash in the Andes and suffered freezing temperatures for over 70 days as they waited for help. The ordeal was brought to wider audiences by the …

Staff (2022-10-13). Senior Yemeni official declares end of ceasefire with Saudis. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 13 (MNA) — Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the head of Yemen's negotiating team, announced the end of an UN-brokered truce between Sana'a and the invading coalition led by Saudi Arabia…

WSWS (2022-10-13). The COVID disaster and the political crisis of Australian capitalism. wsws.org "The criminal 'let it rip' pandemic policies of governments—invariably enforced by the labour and trade union bureaucracies—have exposed the brutality of capitalism, and its readiness to sacrifice lives for corporate profit and private wealth accumulation."

Caitlin A. Johnstone (2022-10-12). A good And righteous proxy war wouldn't need such cartoonish PR. mronline.org Star Wars megastar Mark Hamill was recently named an ambassador for United24, the fundraising platform of the Ukrainian government, where according to The Times his attention will center on "the procurement, repair and replacement of drones as well as pilot training."

_____ (2022-10-12). Debt agony throws the US against the Arab world. journal-neo.org Due to the US administration's policy of continuous borrowing, including to finance the armed conflict in Ukraine, amid record inflation and fears of an impending recession, public debt exceeded $31 trillion for the first time. The Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates, but tighter lending policies are causing the federal government to spend $ 0 …

Deweylaura (2022-10-12). Anti-imperialism is central to the struggle against capitalism. cpusa.org A feature which distinguishes our communist parties from other tendencies which define themselves as "socialist" is our emphasis on anti-imperialist solidarity. A starting point for anyone who wants to understand imperialism is V.I. Lenin's 1916 book Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. In this important work, Lenin outlines the essential features of 20th-century imperialism …

Fvorinoco (2022-10-12). Venezuelan Authorities Give Las Tejerías Tragedy Update: 43 dead, 56 Missing. orinocotribune.com President Maduro directed relevant authorities to deliver financial aid through the Patria System to families affected by the landslide. | This Tuesday, October 11, President Nicolás Maduro reported that nearly deaths and 56 missing persons have been recorded to date after torrential rains caused a landslide in Las Tejerías, Santos Michelena municipality, Aragua state. | From Miraflores, Caracas, the president explained that a study was carried out using satellite images and drones from before and after the tragedy in Las Tejerías. "Venezuela has accumulated experience and scientific knowledge, given that we…